Platitudes

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Vee, Mar 19, 2017.

  1. Vee

    Vee

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    #21     Mar 21, 2017
  2. Vee

    Vee

    It is astonishing to me that we can so clearly identify the ills of a society, and yet so powerless to change it to the benefit of us all.

    Instead we focus on this or that detail of oppression, and refuse to see the disease at the heart of it all. After 10,000 yeas of human history, we finally have the social justice genome - now let's find the cure.
     
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    #22     Mar 21, 2017
  3. Vee

    Vee

    If the parties agreed when forming the ACA had in addition negotiated vehemently with the exchanges/insurance companies to force lower health care costs, the ACA would probably be cemented in place.

     
    #23     Mar 21, 2017
  4. Magna

    Magna Administrator

    I want to remind everyone here of Rule #6 of the TOU: "Registration is limited to one username per member. Elite Trader may, without prior notice, immediately terminate any or all of your accounts after discovering you have registered, and/or posted under, multiple usernames."

    If the OP does not want his current (and past) usernames terminated I suggest two things:
    • he come clean with members here and reveal his previous username
    • he lets me know which ONE of his usernames he wants to keep before he loses ALL of them
     
    #24     Mar 21, 2017
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  5. Vee

    Vee

    More looking at symptoms rather than disease. The disease isn't to lower health care costs or this or that detail. It's living in a system that depresses 50% of the population into more and more psychopathic behavior often leading to death. Which in the case of the behavior not resulting in death, results in higher health care costs.

    Better Health Care for Less Money? It's Not Easy

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    MARCH 21, 2017 6:45 AM EDT
    By
    Megan McArdle
    "America spends more on health care than other rich nations, but has lower life expectancy." If I had a nickel for every time I have been informed this by an email, seen it in a headline, heard it in conversation, or watched it scroll across my social media feed, I would be able to personally fund a single-payer health-care system.

    As with many political memes, its usefulness to policy wonks is inversely proportional to the weight that its casual proponents place on it. As stated, this meme is true enough: America does have higher health-care costs than anywhere else, and we do indeed have shorter life expectancies than some nations. But of course people are not introducing these facts as a fun bit of trivia, like “Babe Ruth used to wear a cabbage leaf under his baseball cap to keep cool.” What they are actually interested in communicating is the implication that America could switch to a single-payer health-care system and thereby enjoy longer life expectancies at lower cost. And that implication is considerably more dubious....

    https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-21/does-the-u-s-overpay-for-health-care-not-really
     
    #25     Mar 21, 2017
  6. Vee

    Vee

    Trump's solution to the opioid epidemic is to build a wall. It never occurs to these people that it is the economic reality of these people that led them to try to escape reality in the first place. Or other injustices. Always point the finger away from the real problem and distract from the real issues.

    Sympton <==> Disease

    https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/
     
    #26     Mar 21, 2017
  7. You suffer from multiple profile disorder and Magna has the cure. Just have some honor and come clean and tell us what other handles you are posting under or have used in the past.

    I really hope you are not Futurecurrents. I don't agree with Futurecurrents on many issues but I always thought that person at least stuck to one profile.
     
    #27     Mar 21, 2017
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  8. Are you saying that this whole wall campaining was all about the drug consumption issue?????
    Can you put links that fully support this assumption?
     
    #28     Mar 21, 2017
  9. Damn!!!! How comes you seem to have these types of insights?
     
    #29     Mar 21, 2017
  10. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    Please elaborate on the "disease at the heart of it all." What is the disease?
     
    #30     Mar 21, 2017